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Importance Of Web Server Log File Analysis

A log file is a file that stores all the actions in an order that occurred with a server, a device, an application. Log file is like a black box in an aircraft, but only difference is that log files can be used to save a crash of a server by getting the details of actions on a server or software in advance. A log file that is accurately analyzed can avoid the misuse of the servers and even can easily ascertain the malfunctioning too.

Since these log files have special characters, session, database information segregating this information to get the data required format manually is very difficult. Myloganalyzer designed with the advanced pattern matching capabilities to easily and accurately do this on an EXIM format log file used in Mail servers. Anyone can use this service, as no technical knowledge is required as such, only a basic knowledge to upload the log files to get the desired report.

Myloganalyzer uses the mail server log files to get the IP address of the sender and receiver of the mails, the hostnames used by users to send and receive mails incase found anything wrong with the hostname and IP the user can modify the filters of the Mail Servers. Reports are available on the mail counts, the protocols that are used by the user like smtp, esmtp, esmtps, smtps, esmtpa, local, the mail id of the sender and receiver. Mail server log files are analyzed to give the highest sender and receiver of emails and also to find out the user exceeding the highest mail limit. Most important of all the details of spammers who have used the mail server, also has the facility to view the filtered mails.

All the above reports can be got for the time period specified from years, months or a specific date or even for the days of a week, hours of a day. So this is the most important and flexible facility used in Myloganallyzer to pin point on the details recorded in a log file.

Once your log file is uploaded Myloganalyzer can literally do a dissection of your mail servers log file effectively and accurately to get the reports you need. So as to maintain the mail server spam free and easily accessible to the expectation of your users this service can be useful.